the presenters and the members of the public for coming out here i thought that was really an informative hearing in terms of hearing a lot of different angles and the last speakers we've heard in terms of the struggles of workers to be actively able to get home it's not only workers but patrons it's a significant challenge that we have not only as a city and region i we need more and better and more reliable late night transportation service. you know, ultimately in terms of affordability that is where we need to go. and i was heart end e he lived

by muni they're working on frequency and it will continue the eternal dialog with bart about expanding the services there. i think it's unfortunate that new york apparently knew something a hundred years ago when it built their system that muni and bart seem to forget when they built our systems you can't even do 24 service because it's outrage but i'm hoping we'll move in a positive direction. i would like for us to work

toward comprehensive late night processes like the transit operations and the transit and various business and worker labor union groups and so forth to try to come up with some ideas. that some which might be challenging to implement in the short-term but more straightforward solutions to you looked forward to doing the work. i also want to say it's unfortunate but leave public focused on the cab industry. i've been a cab driver and have a lot of respect for the companies and drivers for the

providing of services. i also know as something i'm focusing on late night i can't count the number of times going back to 1997 when i moved here long, long before or lift exist i can't count the number ever times that i would go out with myself or friends whether 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock or 2:00 a.m. couldn't get a cab or wait 45 minutes without a cab. for years and years and years cab drivers figure out against the efforts to increase cabs they wouldn't move toward centralized capture so i didn't know if i called you luck's our would they come or yellow.

so the industry cab drivers and cab companies i'm a fan i want this in the forbode this industry needs to look at itself in the mirror and acknowledge there's responsibility there. we have starting to increase the numbers of cabs and we're starting to see throughout the bay area services a more centralized service for cabs. that's long overdue and i do think we would be in the dire straits we're in today so we have to all accept responsibility so i look forward to making sure our cab industry skews. so colleagues if there's no future comments i'll suggest a motion to have this to the call

of the chair we'll take that we'll take that without objection. >> madam clerk, call item 4. >> it's a resolution for the comparative straight naming. >> supervisor kim. >> supervisor campos and i are co-sponsors. >> thank you chair wiener and your co- spokespersonship as well. i'm excited we're having this come to the land use committee. in the based on over a year and a half of outreach and organizing work. with the support of supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos we've trod a resolution of the dedications of church street after a tenderloin icon vicky i want to recognize the harvey

milk club doing the outreach throughout the neighborhood and educating us of the history of the tarndz community and in particular vicky and her importance to the city. the city will be known as a mecca for the lgbt community and they know the history of the castro in the lgbt community. but combh which is not often well known it the hicht in the tenderloin. it's hard for people to imagination when people in gay bars it was illegal to not illegal rather but when transgenders were not allowed to crow dress. during that time the tenderloin become a refugee and most

infamous the one hundred block of church street was particularly historic for this community. the com rady that was built was expiring and vic wras i didn't was a mentor to many of the folks in this room to transgender youth councilwoman u coming up in the scene. it's finally now okay for this recognition and this block is perfect recognize her. vicky was a carr value perform as a girl with the liquid spine in the documentary and she's widely known for being fearlessly holding this

community together. she was providing mentorship and was a iconic person. vicky was designated the grand marshall the san francisco pride prayed and talks about the trans for she's experienced since 1960s. she was what did you do the best drag queen of 2009. we lost vicky at the age of 786. she's left a huge void in the tenderloin that's celebrated the with her for almost 6 decades. the memorial campaign launched was reflective of her leadership in the tenderloin and in the lgbt community as well.

i want to particularly thank felicia one of original screaming queens for taking the lead role and is one of the few that educates as a parent of jean cafeteria riot and i know that supervisor wiener and i have your poster up on our walls pr i want to recognize i think another person who is a new member of the screaming queens and a tenderloin resident and entertainment commission sue and tom of the harvey milk club for your persistence and oug work. i think this is incredible and appreciate that the outreach didn't happen only in the lgbt

community but in the senior centers and business communities it's important to educate the larger community about the lgbt community in the tenderloin so it becomes part of our history. this timing is purposeful so have the acquisition complete in time for the manner in june and the dike march and the gay pride parade. last year one of our residents d-6 leaders works to facilitate the permitting from 3 different police stations to make sure that the trans march could ultimately end flofbt of the cafe site. we all do this in her memory

justice department jazzy was such an important person in our community we we're dictating this block to vicky today. we're hoping that the mural communicating supervisor campos cousin will be here. we're hoping to have another historic street name change today, the designation of tom wooddell an iv i didn't street between polk and van ness. unfortunately, we had a bit of a miscommunication with dpw about the processes so that name change didn't go through we'll not hear that today but hopefully in the next come up of months and his own another

person who helped to off and on the clinic. without further ado, would love to hear from the public about the importance of street naming and also want to recognize the lgbt asian task force. i apologize to supervisor wiener if you have comments >> other than saying supervisor kim for taking the leads as well as the community it's very important. so there's no departmental - it's not necessary but okay. so i'll call public comment the cards we have

(calling names) >> good evening supervisors i want to thank the land use committee for this hearing it's been a long time coming for both the commemoration ball but for honoring the transgender knew. as the milk club as felicia has remit us the lgbt shouldn't be silent. i had a slide presentation so as i give you the slide show i'll give you the 11th hour of episcopal dioceses.

i'm writing to you this evening because i'm having the meeting on this agenda. i planned on a more official letter. i wanted you to know i'm the minister of the episcopal of the archdiocese supports in resolution i've come to know vicky and watched her performance 8 years ago in the company of a priest. tommy had tears in his eyes. when we left the club he was so received by watching vicky she was so alive and everything that god defined her to be.

this is very aspiring they've worked hard and important to the tenderloin community and the lgbt q community we all need to be reminded the tenderloin is an important part of my story as a fifth generation san franciscan. i wanted you to know there's a happen ending thanks to you all this is what the street signblast will look like after june. thank you very much. thank you. i'm a screaming queen a defying have a veteran vet and 27 hiv survivor.

i want to thank the committee members (calling names) i forget. there's so many. tenderloin in the is 1960s and 70s everyone came to san francisco because it of little place to be until 1970 now everybody comes to san francisco because of the castro. our transgenders was lost and forgotten for 70 o 40 years and in 17994 the t was adams to the lgbt. there's two plaques to commemorate the riot. our rich history in the tenderloin has been forgotten everybody talks about stonewalling it's time to talk about the jean compton before

stonewall. vicky a lot of the transgenders came to san francisco because they were lost and looking for a place to fit in and because the t l was the mecca of san francisco we all came and did what we had to do to survive we turned to prostitution and drugs because we couldn't get jobs we went from exposures and queens to what we are vicky opened up the doors with her life experience and i learned what she went throw in the 70s 6 years of her life through life experiences. she loved to performed and lost hers in every song she was beautiful until the end and she

told me one day i will be forgotten and i told her not along as i'm alive i'll give the seniors the credit and this gives of transgenders the respect they deserve and thank you for san francisco pride and the community for naming trans march the pride folks thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please i'm jasmine g. i thank you, supervisors and this community too to have this hearing. i'm a late comer because although i was a native bay area person i came in 1976 i was refrigerated and in the closet

but once i came out and meeting fy lecturing and joined trans march committee and being involved in many lgbt organization and this year is sf pride and i thank them for recognizing a lot of transgender people especially the transparence march and i'm naming a lot of transit contraband marshall's. we're at this critical point that we have this historical event in june. so thank you in advance for hearing us and approving and getting it on the full board to vote.

thank you >> thank you very much commissioner. >> i wanted to thank supervisor kim's office for following through with this and sunny for putting in hours and hours ever work and susan and the rest of the committee. i was president of the milk club when we had the hearing that burned this decision to try to find a way to memorialize this street and as a 4 of-year-old gay man watching gay rights appear before my using one of the greatest things i feel we can do in urban environments is remember where we were because often our community is erased as the neighborhoods change this will help to sloifld our

semblance of past history for the world to see as we go into the world's recognition it's important that san francisco take the lead for the education and history we've given to the world and as we've lost so many of the older generation to hiv and aids situations like this are so important to our community >> thank you. next speaker. >> i've spent 3 years living in the tenderloin one year was homeless and one in an s f l o. the troind has a diversity it's

a homophobic and trans place right now. living there are as a trans person i walk down the street because there's a lot of trans men friends trying to walk down the street they would be violently attacked. and i think when i moved there if i had known about the jean compton riots some kind of honor for the transgender it was okay to be in the neighborhood there was a time when the neighborhood was accepting. analytic i was a victim stabbed on the back of the neck and the blade missed my brain by one

centimeter so i'm able to talk to you otherwise i'd be not victim in the tenderloin. so many times there are tragedies that don't get honored so honoring vicky and i couldn't be prouder to have her represent the trans community. i hope for any future the trans people can have a beacon of hope. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please good afternoon. i'm verona a i'm amending and native america and i'm the terrors tenderloin in the city and county of san francisco. i thinking think this is important and thank you for felicia and sue and the entire

committee i liked vicky as a person but i think i had a lot of respect for her community efforts to raise money for hiv and aids and the community. i think having that sign with her name on it with the same block would be a tangible something that everybody can see and give us a proud part of history we don't want it lost and left behind >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello hutton the harvey milk hat. i want to thank supervisor kim and supervisor wiener and supervisor campos for bringing this forward and would like to give so many thanks to felicia sue and the committee for having

this item. so the harvey milk club was named in honor of heather from his death we are happy to be supporting this renaming of the community queen pioneers. i used to live on 6th street when i had friends visiting out of town i would take them to aunt charles to see vicky because vicky is a true institution and represents the community that brought me here from southern california that brought generations of queer people to san francisco because of the work that she and others have done to make that a city we feel safe and call home.

this is a historic step we are undertaking and hvp is happy to be in support of that happy to march at the end of the trans march >> next speaker >> you'll too often trans members of the lgbt community are facing discrimination vicky marceline represented the trans community in a sprirtd big life way i'm happy to add the name to the street and we're honoring the entire community all members off our society that live their lives to their true selves.

thank you >> at the time. >> i'm back i'm with the pride parade we support the naming of the vicky marlene street a couple of months ago in our meeting pr i want to congratulate the people that led the effort of people are recognize our contribution in life to name something in our honor. the transgender community is the most discriminated independence in the lgbt movement for decades and decades. this is a well serviced that the community is putting vicky's name forward. i think a peripheral by the people is honoring aunt charles that is a safe haven a place for

a benefit. san francisco pride is you honoring the grand marshall chosen by public is the trans march the community voted for a 16-year-old trans woman who was charged b with as a result and will be happy to be in the parade we have a national spokeswoman and the pride board selected ms. gras i didn't a transgender elder and civil rights activist. i think naming tom this is a great way to honor athletes and others to see the pioneering of tom o'dell and there's been a two year effort to name this

street and there's going to be a publication of his memoirs. we hope this gets a great landmark as well >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm jerold. being a part of the committee i don't know vicky at all but i've lived in the tenderloin on and off for the last 25 years. i've also loved it and when i had a chance to be a part of that when sunny came to me and said supervisor kim wants to know since i live on the block do do you want to participate i said sure we have to make sure that all areas are recommended especially in the lgbt community

because and i've lived excuse me. i've lived on the one hundred block for two years and just for this my life as doubled and doubled and i'm connecting with people and networking and from alliance for a better district have to the log cabin republican club they've endorsed vicky so i'd like to say thank you very much thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm michael a tenderloin resident activists in the tenderloin. i am one of the few persons that represent t